Fitting fire hose to barbs

[Will Truitt]

Hi Ron:

 

Greetings from up above.  I do have a synthetic grease, which lubes it up
just fine.  Now for the boilng hot water.  I’ve made 6 cauls, so that’s 12
pieces of misery without something to make it easier.  

 

Will

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Overs
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:15 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: RE: Fitting fire hose to barbs

 

Will,

Greetings from down under. Heating the end will help as mentioned, but
another major help is to use rubber grease, which is a grease made from
vegetable oils. If you can't get this product, cooking oil will also work
just fine.

 

Ron O.

 

Will do.  Thanks,  Joe.

 

Will

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Joe And Penny Goss
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 8:43 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Fitting fire hose to barbs

 

hi Will,

Never done this but would reccomend the hose end be in boiling water for
enough time to soften the end. NOT JUST HOT WATER. I have worked with other
items that are similar to this.

Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com

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From: Will <mailto:surfdog at metrocast.net>  Truitt

To: 'Pianotech <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>  List'

Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:11 PM

Subject: Fitting fire hose to barbs

 

To the List:

 

I got my Nitrile rubber 1 ½" fire hose late this afternoon, and at the end
of the day I cut my lengths and started playing with fitting the hose over
the barbs of my end pieces.  The inner diameter is slightly smaller than the
end of the barb.  Even with grease and wanging the barb around the inside of
the end of the hose to stretch it a bit, it looks like it's going to be a
lot of work to get those suckers on - a lot of screaming, cursing, and
gnashing of teeth.  I was hoping to secure a tool designed for this task at
a hardware store, but there appears to be no such animal.  The suggestion of
placing the hose end in very hot water was made to me, and I will try that
tomorrow.  Does anyone who has experience doing this have any suggestions
that I could use to make my life easier here?

 

Will Truitt

 

 

 

 

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